The years 2007 and 2010 were just as warm as 2014 or even warmer! Nasa-Giss 2014 Temperature.

   This graphic is from Global Temperature Record 2014? by Michael Krueger(translated and edited by P Gosselin  of www.notrickszone.com.).    Since 1880 the global temperature has risen about O.8celsius ie not even a full degree.   Since 1998(a powerful El Nino year) there has been practically no rise.  the grey shading shows the monthly mean values and the red is the smoothed annual mean(over 12 months).